About Wisteria:
now you can choose between BUNNIES and KITTENS. Well, kind of. Unlike the pigeons in Hatoful Boyfriend, these animals fortunately (?) don’t stay animals forever. (I took a bunny with me to the beach; he was not impressed when I put on my $100 dollar bikini, the fruits of MANY nights of labor at the local art gallery. I would’ve been pretty weirded out if he was.) Animal jokes aside, Dandelion is a lovely, very professionally done Korean visual novel aimed at a female audience. I think this may be the first Korean visual novel on Steam, and it’s gorgeous, with fully voiced Korean dialogue and English text. I believe you can set the text to Korean as well. There are five different possible love interests you can pursue at the start, though at the beginning I swear it plays more like a pet raising simulator than anything else. Steambuns instead of Nintendogs, right? But no, there’s a mystery that slowly begins to unfold–and eventually romance. With people. Human people, I swear. Just ignore the occasional animal ears. Yes, the $30 price tag may seem very steep to a lot of Steam users accustomed to cheaper alternatives, but before brushing it off, try the demo (available on Steam right here: It doesn’t take long to see how much work went into it, and how many visual novels on Steam have extensive voice acting? Not enough! I’ve only noticed a few small translation errors here and there, but they aren’t nearly as common, noticeable, or cringe-worthy as a lot of the freemium VNs’ rushed translations on iOS and Android. Overall, the translation is very well done. Hopefully, if Dandelion does well enough on Steam, Cheritz might feel inclined to add Nameless, their latest visual novel set in the same general universe–but with dolls instead of cats and rabbits. Yes, dolls. How can any girl resist? Yes, I sank 35 hours into Dandelion. Yes, every one of them was worth it. I can’t think of another visual novel/dating sim that left me thinking so much after completing it. After completing all 5 routes, make sure to check the bonus content! I was really interested in the mystery behind the story–who left me with these animals and why? The bonus content was the cherry on top of an already delicious sundae–and isn’t the cherry sometimes the best part
